I have a gaming pc with multiple drives: z370 a motherboard intel.
I just cloned my old windows drive onto a new one and got it to boot from the new one.
Then just for fun, I cleared my old one and then tried to install fedora linux kde plasma 40 on the old one using a usb drive.
After the installation completed, it was a little a bit glitchy(file explorer crashed, and reboot or lock button did not function) and then proceeded to crash showing a black screen but with mouse.
I then restarted my computer manually to find that fedora linux didnt pop up in the start menu and I couldnt get into grub either.
My windows install was still present.
When I tried to boot into windows it gave me a blue screen of death with error code 0xc000000e.
I tried a bunch of different solutions to try and get it working.
My gaming pc is stil bricked plz help.
Also, I believe all my data is still present but maybe perhaps the boot configuration got corrupted.
As an update, I read another discussion about dual boot and uefi vs bios type boot installation. I was able to install fedora on my old drive by selecting the uefi boot option instead of the other one which I didnt pay attention to initially and it worked. Grub is working but my windows installation still wont boot.
When you go into the UEFI bios settings (F2) at startup, is the Windows Bootmanager listed as one of the boot options?
If it is, then you may be able to set the primary boot setting to Windows so that you can boot to Win again. If you want you can then fix or reinstall grub later to get fedora working as well.
If it isn’t, then the EFI boot files aren’t detected properly. It’s possible in this case that your previous repair steps didn’t work. I’m not sure how they relate, but there is also another Windows repair program called bcdboot that might work better for your scenario. Below is a video where someone demonstrates fixing EFI boot using this program:
